Collage Fodder and a Tap

Today was a disrupted day because we had a plumber coming to fit and outside tap. I am chuffed to bits that we now have an outside tap, especially given the forecast is for a long, dry summer. I am not chuffed about the climate change part of that, but the easier job of watering will be much appreciated.

I don’t have much to show for the arting today, because most of the things I got up to need to dry out overnight, but the above is a snippet from a sheet of handmade collage paper that involves pulling the leftover paint from an old piece of palette paper. I throw nothing away, it can all become something else one way or another.

I did a few different sheets of handmade collage paper using various techniques, some looking more successful than others. I also tidied and sorted through four drawers of collage fodder and gel plate pulls, and so that part of the studio feels much less chaotic.

I have been obsessing over this medical exam paper phenomenon, and it is definitely the case that not all couch rolls are created equal. The brand that Jackie Bernardi and others use is only available in the US, although there might be a possibility of shipping, or there might have been, but between Brexshit and Tariff of Orange, one can only guess at how much they would end up costing.

The couch roll I have is not the same type of paper. It’s still going to be useful, but it’s not going to be useful for gel plate pulls, I don’t think, so I have been doing my homework on alternatives, and once I have collected things together, and a certain parcel I may or may not have ordered today arrives, I will embark on a testing adventure.

This should hopefully be the culmination of an idea that I first had several years ago, but never quite brought to fruition.

Of course I still have to solve the printer ink running issue, and I have hung the things I printed yesterday to dry for a few days, to see if that lets the ink set.

Til the morn,

Suzanne

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